Nearly a month after the U.S. Commerce Department announced that it was banning Kaspersky Lab Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Russian antivirus software maker Kaspersky from selling its software in the U.S., Kaspersky Lab has announced it’s closing its U.S. business and laying off its employees. As first reported today by Zero Day, Kaspersky said that beginning ...

At least a dozen organizations, primarily in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, have had their domain names and hence their websites hijacked from Squarespace Inc. The hijacked domains belong to former Google Domains customers that had not set up new accounts with Squarespace. Google LLC announced in June last year that it was shutting down Google ...

A self-described hacktivist group is claiming today to have hacked Walt Disney Co.’s Slack account and released more than 1.1 terabytes of stolen data from the account. The group calls itself NullBulge and claims to be a hacktivist group that protects artist’s rights to ensure fair compensation for their work. According to its website, the ...

Identity access management company Okta Inc. today announced several new innovations designed to help organizations reduce their identity attack surface and stay ahead of threats. The new innovations seek to address the issue wherein identity has become a major attack vector in today’s landscape, with more than 80% of data breaches involving some kind of compromised identity, ...

Managed cybersecurity services provider BlueVoyant Inc. today announced the launch of its Cyber Defense Platform, a new service that integrates internal, supply chain, and external defense solutions into a single, cloud-native platform focused on measuring and strengthening cyber defense posture. The new service seeks to address the issue wherein the mission of security operations teams ...

AT&T Inc. is alleged to have paid about $370,000 to delete customer data relating to nearly all of its customers following its theft by the hacking group ShinyHunters. According to Wired today, AT&T is said to have negotiated with an intermediary of ShinyHunters called Reddington to stop the data from being released. The hackers reportedly ...

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google LLC, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cloud security firm Wiz Inc. for about $23 billion. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that the final deal could happen soon if existing talks do not fall apart. The deal, should it happen, ...

Authentication solutions company Badge Inc. today announced a new partnership with Cisco Duo to introduce a hardware-independent roaming multifactor authentication solution that promises secure, efficient and user-friendly identity and authentication processes. The partnership seeks to address issues with traditional hardware-based MFA, which can cause high friction, disrupt operations and result in employee workarounds that can ...

A report out today from SlashNext Inc. details a new phishing kit being advertised on dark web forums that significantly lowers the barriers for cybercriminals to launch effective phishing attacks. Advertised under the name of FishXProxy, the phishing kit equips cybercriminals with a formidable arsenal for multi-layered email phishing attacks. It includes features such as uniquely ...

Data cloud company Snowflake Inc. has introduced new security measures after its customers were targeted following a third-party breach earlier this year. A hacking campaign targeting Snowflake users first came to light in late May when a claimed 560 million records stolen from Ticketmaster Entertainment appeared for sale on the Breach Forums hacking site. That was followed ...